IFI CLAIMS 2015 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
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| Rank | Grants | Assignee Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,355 | International Business Machines Corp |
| 2 | 5,072 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd |
| 3 | 4,134 | Canon KK |
| 4 | 2,900 | Qualcomm Inc |
| 5 | 2,835 | Google Inc |
| 6 | 2,627 | Toshiba Corp |
| 7 | 2,455 | Sony Corp |
| 8 | 2,242 | LG Electronics Inc |
| 9 | 2,048 | Intel Corp |
| 10 | 1,956 | Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC |
| 11 | 1,938 | Apple Inc |
| 12 | 1,838 | Samsung Display Co Ltd |
| 13 | 1,774 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co |
| 14 | 1,757 | General Electric Co |
| 15 | 1,627 | Ricoh Co Ltd |
| 16 | 1,620 | Seiko Epson Corp |
| 17 | 1,581 | Toyota Motor Corp |
| 18 | 1,474 | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co Ltd |
| 19 | 1,467 | Fujitsu Ltd |
| 20 | 1,407 | Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson |
| 21 | 1,315 | GM Global Technology Operations LLC |
| 22 | 1,304 | Hewlett Packard Development Co LP |
| 23 | 1,187 | Brother Kogyo KK |
| 24 | 1,185 | Ford Global Technologies LLC |
| 25 | 1,142 | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 26 | 1,136 | Amazon Technologies Inc |
| 27 | 1,129 | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd |
| 28 | 1,085 | Broadcom Corp |
| 29 | 1,083 | Hon Hai Precision IndUnited Statestry Co Ltd |
| 30 | 1,071 | BlackBerry Ltd |
| 31 | 1,031 | Honda Motor Co Ltd |
| 32 | 1,011 | Siemens AG |
| 33 | 997 | Sharp KK |
| 34 | 976 | Boeing Co |
| 35 | 961 | Micron Technology Inc |
| 36 | 960 | Cisco Technology Inc |
| 37 | 923 | Koninklijke Philips NV |
| 38 | 896 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp |
| 39 | 891 | SK Hynix Inc |
| 40 | 885 | AT&T Intellectual Property I LP |
| 41 | 809 | Xerox Corp |
| 41 | 809 | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute |
| 43 | 808 | Texas Instruments Inc |
| 44 | 800 | Huawei Technologies Co Ltd |
| 45 | 792 | NEC Corp |
| 46 | 778 | Denso Corp |
| 47 | 747 | FUJIFILM Corp |
| 48 | 746 | Honeywell International Inc |
| 49 | 745 | Covidien LP |
| 50 | 744 | Hyundai Motor Co |
Rankings were compiled using the USPTO source-data by current company or assignee name on file at the USPTO.
Grant counts were based on data available as of January 16, 2016.
